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Product Description: The twenty-first century has been dubbed the Asian Century. Highlighting diverse thinker-politicians rather than billionaire businessmen, Makers of Modern Asia presents eleven leaders who theorized and organized anticolonial movements, strategized and directed military campaigns, and designed and implemented political systems...read more
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9780674365414 | Belknap Pr, August 29, 2014, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Hardly more than a decade old, the twenty-first century has already been dubbed the Asian Century in recognition of China and India’s increasing importance in world affairs.
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9780674970809 | Reprint edition (Belknap Pr, November 21, 2016), cover price $22.95 | About this edition: The twenty-first century has been dubbed the Asian Century.
Product Description: As the twenty-first century dawns China stands at a crossroads The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the worlds second biggest economy China has recently reclaimed its historic place at the center of global affairs after decades of internal chaos and disastrous foreign relations But even as China tentatively reengages with the outside world the contradictions of its development risks pushing it back into an era of insularity and instability-a regression that as Chinas recent history shows would have serious implications for all other nations In Restless Empire award-winning historian Odd Arne Westad traces Chinas complex foreign affairs over the past 250 years identifying the forces that will determine the countrys path in the decades to come Since the height of the Qing Empire in the eighteenth century Chinas interactions-and confrontations-with foreign powers have caused its worldview to fluctuate wildly between extremes of dominance and subjugation emulation and defiance From the invasion of Burma in the 1760s to the Boxer Rebellion in the early 20th century to the 2001 standoff over a downed U S spy plane many of these encounters have left Chinese with a lingering sense of humiliation and resentment and inflamed their notions of justice hierarchy and Chinese centrality in world affairs Recently Chinas rising influence on the world stage has shown what the country stands to gain from international cooperation and openness But as Westad shows the nations success will ultimately hinge on its ability to engage with potential international partners while simultaneously safeguarding its own strength and stability An in-depth study by one of our most respected authorities on international relations and contemporary East Asian history Restless Empire is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the recent past and probable future of this dynamic and complex natio...read more
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9780465019335 | Basic Books, August 28, 2012, cover price $32.00
9780382394614, titled "Maria Martinez, Tewa Potter" | Dillon Pr, October 1, 1999, cover price $55.01 | also contains Maria Martinez, Tewa Potter | About this edition: A biography of the noted Tewa artist, Maria Martinez, focusing on her work as a potter and on her role in preserving the culture of her people.
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9780465056675 | Reprint edition (Basic Books, April 28, 2015), cover price $22.50 | About this edition: As the twenty-first century dawns China stands at a crossroads The largest and most populous country on earth and currently the worlds second biggest economy China has recently reclaimed its historic place at the center of global affairs after decades of internal chaos and disastrous foreign relations But even as China tentatively reengages with the outside world the contradictions of its development risks pushing it back into an era of insularity and instability-a regression that as Chinas recent history shows would have serious implications for all other nations In Restless Empire award-winning historian Odd Arne Westad traces Chinas complex foreign affairs over the past 250 years identifying the forces that will determine the countrys path in the decades to come Since the height of the Qing Empire in the eighteenth century Chinas interactions-and confrontations-with foreign powers have caused its worldview to fluctuate wildly between extremes of dominance and subjugation emulation and defiance From the invasion of Burma in the 1760s to the Boxer Rebellion in the early 20th century to the 2001 standoff over a downed U S spy plane many of these encounters have left Chinese with a lingering sense of humiliation and resentment and inflamed their notions of justice hierarchy and Chinese centrality in world affairs Recently Chinas rising influence on the world stage has shown what the country stands to gain from international cooperation and openness But as Westad shows the nations success will ultimately hinge on its ability to engage with potential international partners while simultaneously safeguarding its own strength and stability An in-depth study by one of our most respected authorities on international relations and contemporary East Asian history Restless Empire is essential reading for anyone wishing to understand the recent past and probable future of this dynamic and complex nation
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9781846144431 | 6 revised edition (Penguin USA, September 30, 2014), cover price $25.00
Product Description: This volume brings together a series of recent analyses spanning the whole period of Soviet domination of Eastern Europe. The essays - by Western, Russian, and East European experts - present a wide and varied picture of the period...read more
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9781349232369, titled "The Soviet Union in Eastern Europe, 1945â89" | Palgrave Macmillan, January 25, 2016, cover price $209.00 | About this edition: This volume brings together a series of recent analyses spanning the whole period of Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.
Product Description: From the evolution of Homo sapiens to the exploration of space, the vast landscape of human history stretches out before the reader in J.M. Roberts's renowned and newly revised History of the World. Deftly written and evocatively illustrated, this book offers the finest available one-volume survey of the major events, developments, and personalities of the known past...read more
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9780199861880 | 5th edition (Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 2014), cover price $45.00 | About this edition: From the evolution of Homo sapiens to the exploration of space, the vast landscape of human history stretches out before the reader in J.
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9780521837194, titled "The Cambridge History of the Cold War: Origins" | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2010), cover price $209.99
9780521839389 | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 30, 2010), cover price $549.99
9780521837217, titled "The Cambridge History of the Cold War: Endings" | 1 edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, April 26, 2010), cover price $209.99
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9781107602328 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, March 31, 2012), cover price $109.99
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9781107602298 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, February 20, 2012), cover price $39.99
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9781107602304 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 20, 2012, cover price $39.99
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9781107602311 | Reprint edition (Cambridge Univ Pr, February 20, 2012), cover price $39.99
Product Description: The relaxation of the Cold War Bloc tensions in the 1970s ? the so-called - détente process ?- was a watershed in the history of the Cold War. Recent research suggests that this process is far more significant than previously believed for understanding and explaining the developments that brought about the peaceful end of the Cold War in the late 1980s...read more
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9788763525886, titled "Perforating the Iron Curtain: European Détente, Transatlantic Relations, and the Cold War, 1965-1985" | Museum Tusculanum, January 15, 2010, cover price $61.00 | About this edition: The relaxation of the Cold War Bloc tensions in the 1970s ?
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9780521853644, titled "The Global Cold War: Third World Interventions And The Making Of Our Times" | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 7, 2005, cover price $36.99
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9780521703147 | Cambridge Univ Pr, March 31, 2007, cover price $27.99
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9780415390583 | 1 edition (Routledge, August 30, 2006), cover price $168.00
Product Description: This new collection explores the origins and key issues of the Third Indochina War, which began in 1979. Drawing on unique documentation from all sides, leading contributors reinterpret and demystify the long-term and immediate causes of the Vietnamese-Cambodian and Sino-Vietnamese conflicts...read more
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9780415545051 | 1 edition (Routledge, August 18, 2006), cover price $54.95 | About this edition: This new collection explores the origins and key issues of the Third Indochina War, which began in 1979.
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9780198208624 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 9, 2003, cover price $280.00
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9780199272808 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 2, 2004, cover price $56.00
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9780804744843 | Stanford Univ Pr, April 1, 2003, cover price $28.95
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9780804744782 | Stanford Univ Pr, March 1, 2003, cover price $28.95
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9780714650722 | Routledge, August 1, 2000, cover price $210.00
Product Description: Hard to find 1998 hardcover from Stanford. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780804734844 | Stanford Univ Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $46.00 | About this edition: Hard to find 1998 hardcover from Stanford.
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9780804734851 | Stanford Univ Pr, October 1, 1998, cover price $30.95
Product Description: This volume brings together a series of recent analyses spanning the whole period of Soviet domination of Eastern Europe. The essays - by Western, Russian, and East European experts - present a wide and varied picture of the period...read more
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9780312102982 | Palgrave Macmillan, February 1, 1994, cover price $219.00 | About this edition: This volume brings together a series of recent analyses spanning the whole period of Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.
9780333602300, titled "The Soviet Union in Eastern Europe 1945-89" | Palgrave Macmillan, January 28, 1994, cover price $219.00 | About this edition: This volume brings together a series of recent analyses spanning the whole period of Soviet domination of Eastern Europe.
Cold War and Revolution: Soviet-American Rivalry and the Origins of the Chinese Civil War, 1944-1946
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9780231079853 | Reprint edition (Columbia Univ Pr, August 1, 1993), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: Based on recently declassified Chinese and American government material, this study reveals how the onset of American-Soviet rivalry shaped the outcome of the Chinese Civil War.
Product Description: In December 1991 the Nobel prizes celebrated their 90th anniversary. For this occasion, the Norwegian Nobel Committee--which awards the Nobel Peace Prize--brought together a very distinguished group of Nobel peace laureates and academic scholars...read more
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9788200217121 | Universitetsforlaget, May 1, 1993, cover price $42.00 | About this edition: In December 1991 the Nobel prizes celebrated their 90th anniversary.
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